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[Nine] people were killed and as many as [nine] were wounded Thursday in a shooting at a small community college in Roseburg, Oregon, according to multiple reports. Sheriff John Handlin said at a press conference Thursday afternoon that officers had ‘neutralized’ [aka killed] the shooter, who was male, during an exchange of gunfire in a… Read more.
And Putin is trolling him with a coalition of his own … to do the same. American-trained Syrian fighters gave at least a quarter of their U.S.-provided equipment to al-Qaeda’s affiliate in Syria early this week, the U.S. Central Command said late Friday. In a statement correcting earlier assertions that reports of the turnover were… Read more.
Pro-independence parties in Spain’s Catalonia region have won an absolute majority in regional elections… The separatists say the victory gives them a clear mandate to form an independent Catalan state. Spain’s central government in Madrid has pledged to challenge any unilateral moves towards independence in court (BBC, September 28, 2015) I’ve been commenting on pro-independence… Read more.
[M]illions could be wandering through Europe, in migrant formation, before the end of the year. At that rate, Europe might end up with a majority non-White population before the United States… Germans are greeting this first wave of migrants with banners, cheers, and food. But don’t be surprised if these same Germans are hurling xenophobic epithets… Read more.
Evidently, it’s to show how even a brain surgeon can be an ignorant fool. He truly distinguished himself in this respect last week by declaring that we should never: … put a Muslim in charge of this nation. (The Washington Post, September 20, 2015) But nothing has betrayed his Uncle Tomfoolery quite like Carson parroting… Read more.
Americans are rolling out the red carpet for Pope Francis in ways never seen before. The unprecedented pomp and ceremony began with both President Obama and Vice President Biden leading a delegation to greet him at the airport on Tuesday, when he set foot on U.S. soil for the first time in his life. The… Read more.
Obama authorizes raft of business dealings with Cuba: The White House on Friday announced wide-ranging changes to loosen travel, commerce and investment restrictions on Cuba, moving to fulfill President Obama’s goal of breaking down barriers between Washington and Havana… They are to take effect on Monday on the eve of the visit to Washington by… Read more.
I took a lot of flak four years ago for dismissing the VMAs and damning the music industry as follows: Lady Gaga literally personifies the triumph of packaged and formulaic acts over talented performances. Which is rather a shame because this girl can sing… Come to think of it, though, most performers today seem to think that the… Read more.
Alfred W. McCoy, Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is getting a lot of attention for offering what many are hailing as a unique perspective on the Obama presidency. This excerpt from “Grandmaster of the Great Game,” Huffington Post, September 15, 2015, might explain why. _________________ In ways that have eluded Washington pundits and policymakers, President… Read more.
The following is an excerpt from “Zimbabweans Pray for Liberation from their Liberator, Robert Mugabe,” March 29, 2005. It attests to my abiding lamentation on President Mugabe’s willful intent to ruin his country’s farmland and, by extension, its agrarian economy – all in the name of Black liberation. __________________ The Mugabe government of Zimbabwe is the most corrupt, dysfunctional,… Read more.
